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    "description": "The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Text 2.18 prakasa-kriya-sthiti-silam bhutendriyatmakam bhogapavargartham drsyam TRANSLATION That which is knowable has the nature of illumination, activity, and inertia [sattva, rajas, and tamas]. It consists…",
    "author": "Rathi Krishna dasa",
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# The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Text 2.18

**The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Text 2.18**

*prakasa-kriya-sthiti-silam bhutendriyatmakam bhogapavargartham drsyam*

TRANSLATION
That which is knowable has the nature of illumination, activity, and inertia [

*sattva, rajas, and tamas*

].  It consists of the senses and the elements, and exists for the purpose of [providing] either liberation or experience [to

*purusa*

].